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Wesley Clark vows to curb illegal immigration if elected president (Fires salvo from right at Bush)
AP ^ | Jan 31, 2004 | BETH FOUHY

Posted on 01/31/2004 4:08:48 PM PST by nwrep

Edited on 04/13/2004 2:45:40 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

Wesley Clark pledged Saturday to "get our balance right" by stemming illegal immigration while allowing immigrants to earn citizenship over time.

Appearing in this military community near the border with Mexico, the retired general said, "We are going to control our borders, going to work with the government of Mexico to stem what's going on down there because we have to."


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TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; Government; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: 2004; aliens; clark; illegalimmigration; immigrantlist; immigration; issues
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Wesley Clark vows to curb illegal immigration if elected president (Fires salvo from right at Bush) - PING!
221 posted on 01/31/2004 10:07:26 PM PST by Happy2BMe (U.S. borders - Controlled by CORRUPT Politicians and Slave-Labor Employers)
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To: seamole; Happy2BMe
Clark's immigration policy is fundamentally identical to that of the President's. This is a load of hot air, similar to him claiming there would be no 9/11's on his watch.

Agreed.

Clark's playing the same basic "Amnesty = Security" game that Bush is.


222 posted on 01/31/2004 10:11:22 PM PST by Sabertooth (Malcontent for Bush - 2004!)
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To: Happy2BMe
Clark's nowhere on this or anything else.

John Edwards is the one to watch.

223 posted on 01/31/2004 10:19:03 PM PST by keri
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To: nwrep
Hillary Clinton's lapdog makes a statement and many Freepers want to make him their new god. Wonderful.
224 posted on 01/31/2004 10:27:32 PM PST by LdSentinal
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To: LdSentinal
I don't think all those Freepers are as stupid as you think. They have been on to Clark since the get-go.
225 posted on 01/31/2004 11:18:08 PM PST by MissouriForBush (Insert "Was")
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To: LdSentinal
General Wesley Clark, aka General Jack D. Ripper, is a nuts as he has ever been. I don't think MOST Freepers think of him as any kind of deity.

The problem is that the political establishment believe, with all the sincerity their sense of cultural and intellectual superiority grants them, that our borders are anachronisms that do nothing constructive and impede the free flow of commerce and ideas.

The result is an invasion on a scale with the wandering of tribes of the fifth century. The illegals crowd our cities, our hospitals and our jails. 95% of the outstanding homicide warrants in LA County are for Illegals. Some gangs of illegals number upwards of 20,000.

The whole "immigration issue" has a very Late Roman Empire feel to it. The soft fools in their marble cities won't get the message until the mob comes to their doors.
226 posted on 02/01/2004 12:16:12 AM PST by InABunkerUnderSF (Californians: Please visit www.save187.com)
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To: nwrep
The incinerator speaks again. [Waco] And just why would I want to trust you with the safety of my family Mr Wes??
227 posted on 02/01/2004 1:02:48 AM PST by Indie (Never trust a Russian: spoken by friend's Russian grandfather.)
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To: B Knotts
"smart move"

Really ..?? Well .. what if Bush proposed the Guest Worker idea just to force the dems to go against it ..??

So far .. everything Bush proposes the democrats are against. Why would immigration reform be any different ..??

As usual, the dems are so blinded by their hatred of Bush, they are dissing Hispanics right before an election .. not a very "smart move" to me.
228 posted on 02/01/2004 3:24:05 AM PST by CyberAnt ("America is the GREATEST NATION on the face of the earth")
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To: seamole
Boy, Clark seems to think he's God or something -- using words like "ensure."

And all of this revamping of the INS is gonna take big bucks. Of course, we ALL know how well government bureaucracy works...the DMV comes to mind.

229 posted on 02/01/2004 3:42:06 AM PST by IrishRainy
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To: nwrep
It's a bizarre time in which we live when it's honorable for politicians to "curb" illegal activity rather than "stop" it or change the laws declaring it illegal....
230 posted on 02/01/2004 4:10:57 AM PST by Theo
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To: nwrep
"We are going to control our borders, going to work with the government of Mexico to stem what's going on down there because we have to."

Those words are music to my ears but unfortunately they're coming out of the wrong mouth.

Those words should be coming from our President instead of a Presidential wanabee.

231 posted on 02/01/2004 4:19:08 AM PST by varon
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To: gwbiny2k
This is exactly what scares me about Clark...he will say ANYTHING to get votes.

So how does that differentiate him from other politicians?

232 posted on 02/01/2004 4:23:18 AM PST by varon
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To: henderson field
Why would the anchor baby thing require a Constitutional amendment? Why not just pass a law?

Amendment XIV: Section 1. All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside.

233 posted on 02/01/2004 4:57:06 AM PST by ovrtaxt (we are the pawns of partisanship, when we ought to be the soldiers of principle. - Alan Keyes)
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To: Hugin; sarcasm
I was KIDDING! (sorry I didn't explain that..........I thought it was pretty obvious).

btw, we're ALL against illegal immigration.........just have different approaches to how to solve the problem.

234 posted on 02/01/2004 5:09:10 AM PST by ohioWfan (BUSH 2004 - Leadership, Integrity, Morality)
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To: FairOpinion
Did you read, what he said?!

Just for the record, I think he is a complete nutcase and should not be believed. I just posted this here to see how people would react.

235 posted on 02/01/2004 5:49:50 AM PST by nwrep
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To: EGPWS
Dubya has the vision of what is necessary and hasn't "closed" his mind to just focus on one issue at hand

Why does it require a closed mind for him to just do his job - say, by increasing the number of patrollers on our own borders to the number of men he has patrolling Bosnia's borders? Seems to me he's rather closed-minded not to.

236 posted on 02/01/2004 8:29:03 AM PST by inquest (The only problem with partisanship is that it leads to bipartisanship)
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To: ovrtaxt
Nothing in that amendment says that the parents of a citizen, who aren't citizens themselves, are entitled to any kind of special breaks.
237 posted on 02/01/2004 8:30:29 AM PST by inquest (The only problem with partisanship is that it leads to bipartisanship)
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To: CyberAnt
Well .. what if Bush proposed the Guest Worker idea just to force the dems to go against it ..??

Maybe Bush figured that by running to the left of the democrats, he was going to push them further left --- but this shows that some of the smarter ones are going to get to the right of Bush --- they'll seem to be the moderates who care about Americans more than they care about foreigners.

238 posted on 02/01/2004 8:46:36 AM PST by FITZ
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To: nwrep
the retired general said, "We are going to control our borders, going to work with the government of Mexico to stem what's going on down there because we have to."

Work WITH one of the most corrupt governments in the world? Clark doesn't get it either --- we need to work against it --- the government of Mexico has to make some changes and quickly --- we can't stop the Revolution for much longer by catering to the oligarchs there who like the system just the way it is.

239 posted on 02/01/2004 8:52:04 AM PST by FITZ
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To: Dane; Admin Moderator
"But what the hey to the anti-Bush bandwagon, they will take the red meat and be ignorant of the facts."

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Exactly.

It appears to me that some people want to make Free Republic the most anti-Bush site on the web, outdoing DU.
240 posted on 02/01/2004 11:08:48 AM PST by FairOpinion
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